Review of Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) by Thequietgamer — 30 Apr 2018

The long-awaited conclusion to one of the last dystopian YA film series is finally here. Despite being another Maze Runner where there's no actual maze, this is much more in line with what the first film was like than the post-apocalyptic zombie flick we got last time. The Death Cure is kind of coasting by on emotion and spectacle as there are still issues with the storytelling.

Overall it does a satisfactory job of giving these characters an ending to their troubles. I was still left with a lot of questions that never really got satisfactory answers though. Like just why putting the twentysomethings in the maze caused them to secrete some life-saving enzyme in the first place. We learn why Thomas has been so special this entire time, but his role in WCKD before being inducted into the mazes is made even more confusing. I also felt like my opinions on the actual villains was supposed to flip-flop at least 30 times before the credits rolled. Particularly in regards to Teresa. Then there's the question of how that one dude managed to come back from the dead.

This is all kind of easy to overlook in the minute-to-minute action though. Things. Get. Crazy. Plus at this point in the game we've all pretty much grown to love these characters and are just invested in seeing their conflicts resolved. I mean we've put up with the plotting issues this far so what's one more outing here at the end? Come for the scale, balls out action, and sweet, sweet resolution. Seriously, I can't praise the action enough. Maze Runner proves once again to be the most violent YA series to hit the screens. The shootouts and fist fights are huge and brutal. There are regular explosions and big stunts. The Death Cure? More like the boredom cure. It does things that The Hunger Games and Divergent just didn't.